This is UK Minister of State Lee Rowley responding to the fact that an IDF sniper killed a Christian mother and her daughter in a church in Gaza

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[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does this reflect something that was always there, only hidden under a veneer of pretense morality?

USA invented 'napalm' to solve the problem of how to burn alive large numbers of people. And when they learned the Vietnamese were jumping into rice paddies to extinguish the fire as they were being burned alive, USA added white phosphorus to the mix so it would continue to burn them alive even underwater.

Yes, this has always been a feature of the so-called West's 'morality'. Also, murdering journalists who report on what they're doing, so whoever broke that story about Israeli snipers killing people inside the church is probably already dead.

[–]ageingrockstar[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Related Caitlin Johnstone post :

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it.

The demolition of Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box.

For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1737292168942023082

(However, I think she goes a bit overboard later in that post when she says stuff like "That mountain of child corpses is a much better representation of western culture than anything Mozart, da Vinci or Shakespeare ever produced.". I disagree with her there.)

[–]ageingrockstar[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've added this to my personal 'Yuck' bookmarks folder.

Absolutely sickining the rhetoric and excuse making here (for an absolutely unjustifiable act).

As Arnaud says :

The whole world sees this kind of talk which is pervasive among almost all Western leaders. And they just won't forget, we're looking at a future where any talk of "values", "principles", "respect of rules", etc. by the West will be met by laughter and ridicule by the rest of the world for decades to come.

[–]ageingrockstar[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd like to see a website set up, where records are made of every significant figure who is defending and speaking in support of these heinous Zionist crimes.

I think they all need to be held to account. Yes, they have the (absolute) right to free speech. And history will damn them for what they freely said.

[–]automoderator[M] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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